Pauline Réage - Histoire d'O. Avec une préface de Jean Paulhan

Pauline Réage - Histoire d'O. Avec une préface de Jean Paulhan - [Paris] - Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert - 1969 - Later edition - [4],[xx],[2],[250] pp - Paperback - 12,5 x 18,5 cm.

Condition: Good - with wear and contemporary name. But a neat copy.

Vintage 1960s edition of Histoire d'O (1954); the famous sadomasochistic novel (issued under pseudonym) by French journalist Dominique Aury (= Anne Desclos, 1907-1998). The protagonist 'O' is subjected to corporal punishment (whipping, branding) by a strict master. Text in French.

¶ With a preface ('Du bonheur dans l'esclavage') by Jean Paulhan (1889-1968), the writer's lover at the time. "The Story of O" was originally written privately for him because he was an admirer of Marquis de Sade. The book was adapted to a movie in 1975 by Just Jaeckin with Corinne Cléry and Udo Kier in the leading roles.